[Vision2020] Army Times to Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation

[Tom Hansen]

>From CNN.com -

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Army Times to call for Rumsfeld's resignation

(CNN) -- An editorial to be published Monday in independent publications
that serve the four main branches of the U.S. military will call for
President Bush to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

"Basically, the editorial says, it's clear now, from some of the public
statements that military leaders are making, that he's lost the support and
respect of the military leadership," said Robert Hodierne, senior managing
editor for the publications' parent company Army Times Publications.

"That they're starting to go public with that now, with their disagreements,
added up with all of the other missteps we believe he's made, that it's time
for him to be replaced," Hodierne.

Army Times Publications publishes the Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force
Times and the Marine Corps Times.

It is the second time the publications have called for Rumsfeld to resign.

Bush has maintained that Rumsfeld will stay on the job until 2008. (Watch
Bush say Rumsfeld is staying on the job -- 1:20)

In May 2004, when the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal broke, an Army Times
editorial said, "This was not just a failure of leadership at the local
command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top.
Accountability here is essential, even if that means relieving top leaders
from duty in a time of war."

The timing of Monday's editorial was prompted not by midterm elections,
scheduled for Tuesday, but by Bush's statement earlier this week that he
intends to keep Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney in their posts
through the end of his term, Hodierne said.

No one running for midterm elections, he noted, would have the power to
replace Rumsfeld.

Swaying conservative voters "is not our aim," said Hodierne. "Our aim is
simply to say, for the good of the service, for the good of the country,
it's time for this guy to go."

Owned by the Gannett Company, Army Times Publishing is the world's largest
publisher of defense and military-related periodicals, Hodierne said.

The four weekly newspapers are distributed in the general stores and
commissaries on military around the world. They have a combined circulation
of about 250,000, he said.

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Seeya at the polls, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Vandalville, Idaho

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